James Franco’s Labyrinthine Career Path Continues with “Labyrinth” Course at U.S.C.

Less than a week after we learned that James Franco has formed a Motown band and recorded a track with Smokey Robinson, the University of Southern California has announced that the unpredictable careerist will co-teach a class at its School of Cinematic Arts next spring. According to the L.A. Times, the film-production course, which will be co-taught by Franco’s business partner Vince Jolivette, will require students to direct a short film. The final collection of eight films, referred to in the course description as “The Labyrinth,” will be pieced together into a single movie intended to explore “the unknown, the unexplained, and the unimaginable.” “Unknown,” “unexplained,” and “unimaginable” also being words that could describe Franco’sperplexing career, which we attempted to map last week in our Inception-Style Plot Chart.